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Episode 229: Somewhat Rectilinear
This week in SF history
— September 27 2003: last flight of Ariane 5 G, launching E-Bird
— First A5 flight, 1996, failed spectacularly (youtu.be) (wikipedia.org) (hownot2code.com)
— Next week in 1958: Twelve pages
Spaceflight news
— NASA planning on placing a cubesat in a Lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— Meanwhile some Congressfolk are suggesting killing Lunar Gateway altogether (arstechnica.com)
Short & Sweet
— Updates on Rocket Lab and Blue Origin launch complexes (rocketlabusa.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
— SpaceX is offering a buyout. (space.com)
— Japan seeks to double its launch capacity. (rocketrundown.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Off-Nominal DC (aka “inside the beltway”) meetup (events.offnominal.space)